Inner City Housing Area : KL
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KLCC area where the vibrancy of the city starts.
Cheras flats are among a few public housing schemes owned by the City Council (DBKL) in the inner city area of Kuala Lumpur. The tenants were selected among the cream of poor urban dwellers in Kuala Lumpur whose income is less than RM750 (USD230) per month. Some of them were among the squatters of the council’s land who got an eviction notice and later resettled in the same council’s resettlement schemes. Now there are many other affordable housing schemes for urban poor’s to live in.
New PPT public housing in the outskirt
Council housing schemes offer a small “one or two bedrooms apartment, one hall and a toilet” housing unit. The living space is just over 550 square feet and rent is below RM200 (USD60) per month. After 30 years over the time the schemes were first introduced and built, some of the tenants are still occupying the same premises. With a bigger family member that may reach more than eight children in the household, these tenants need to move into bigger housing units, but as it seems, they rather live in the same premises or in the area to save unnecessary transfer cost.
New high end residential developments in the vicinity of KLCC
Cheras Council Flats
On the other hand, demand for high-end residential housing in the central of Kuala Lumpur is also on the rise. The vibrancy of the area around KLCC, the business centre of Kuala Lumpur attracts high-flyer developers to create demand for high-end condominiums by building numerous high-class high-rise condominiums, the trendy city living in this country. It is hope that the council housing schemes will be spared. On redevelopment of the sites and turning them into an high end use Council stands to make hefty profits, but of course by doing so the council will deprive the urban poor of the city living.
What will be the fate of these council flats if demand for high class housing encroaches their area?
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